B’nai Brith report says there’s a ‘disturbing’ trend of increased anti-Semitism in Canada GlobePolitics
Some of the incidents the group recorded include teens shooting lit fireworks at Hasidic Jews in Boisbriand, Que., two Saskatchewan elementary school students being harassed and beaten by their peers, Orthodox students being assaulted on the streets of Toronto, and a 13-year-old Toronto student being told by a peer who had threatened to “shoot up a Jewish school” to “go back into the ovens."
The audit says that examples of online hate range from threatening e-mails to anti-Semitic bullying on social media, including death threats. Perpetrators are rarely held accountable, the report says, but notes that some comments have led to criminal charges. B’nai Brith is calling for dedicated hate-crime units in every major Canadian police force, and wants the federal government to come up with a plan to combat online hate.Rachel Rappaport, a spokeswoman for Justice Minister David Lametti, said the government is “deeply concerned” about the rise in online hatred. Ms.
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